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a loss beyond words. Your school library, your community. School libraries are much more than literacy centers. They serve as a safe environment to explore and learn, access new information technologies, and collaborate with peers. When a school library program is destroyed by a natural disaster, the students and the community feel the immediate loss of a valuable resource that reaches far beyond books. Since 2006, the American Association of School Librarians, with funding from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, has given more than 1.5 million dollars in grants to over 150 school libraries across the country affected by natural disasters. APPLY TODAY FOR A BEYOND WORDS GRANT: WWW.ALA.ORG/AASL/ DISASTERRELIEF TEXAS LIBRARY JOURNAL Conference Edition contents Volume 90, No 4 Winter 2014 Published by the TEXAS LIBRARY President’s Letter ................................... Sharon Amastae ............................2 ASSOCIATION Editorial ............................................... Gloria Meraz ................................4 The Importance of School Libraries ........ Nicole Cruz ....................................6 Membership in TLA is open to any Screen time or Story time? ..................... Sarah Booth ...................................8 individual or institution interested An Executive Summary of “Discovery Services: A White Paper in Texas libraries. for the Texas State Library & Archives Commission” ..................................10 Arta Kabashi, Christine Peterson, and Tim Prather To find out more about TLA, order TLA publications, or place advertising in Newsnotes ................................................................................................14 Texas Library Journal, write to Texas Library Association 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401 Austin, Texas 78746-6763; call 1-800-580-2TLA (2852); or visit our website at www.txla.org. A directory of TLA membership is available in the “Members Only” section of the website. Opinions expressed in Texas Library Journal are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by TLA. ANNUAL CONFERENCE Corporate Sponsors ..................................................................................18 Featured Speakers ....................................................................................20 Journal Staff Programs by Topic ....................................................................................24 Exhibiting Companies ...............................................................................32 Editor Gloria Meraz SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Preconferences (Tuesday) ......................................................................34 Layout/Graphics Mary Ann Emerson Tuesday, April 14 ..................................................................................38 Advertising Mgr. Kasey Hyde Wednesday, April 15 ............................................................................42 Printer Capital Printing Thursday, April 16 ................................................................................51 Friday, April 17 ....................................................................................62 INDEX of Events, Speakers, & Sponsoring Units ..........................................67 FORMS & Instructions © Texas Library Association Hands-On Labs Schedule .....................................................................71 Texas Library Journal (ISSN 0040-4446) is Conference Preregistration ....................................................................73 published quarterly in spring, summer, fall, and TLA Membership ..................................................................................75 winter by the Texas Library Association, 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401, Austin, Texas 78746- 6763. Periodicals Postage Paid at Austin, Texas. MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Texas Library Journal, 3355 Bee Cave Road, Suite 401, Yes, it’s that time of year again! In addition to reducing the costs of conference registration, Austin, Texas 78746-6763. Subscription price: to your TLA membership keeps you connected to colleagues, informed on issues affecting members of TLA, 94 cents, included in annual your profession and your library, and provides opportunities for professional and personal dues; to nonmembers, $25 per year for domestic, growth. Renew your membership by February 1, 2015 to be eligible to vote in next year’s $30 out-of-country. Single issues: $7. TLA elections. Let’s work together to make 2015 a great year for Texas libraries. 1 Texas Library Journal • Winter 2014 agine • collabora im te • innovate BY SHARON AMASTAE MEET YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS President’s Perspective from Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group in the Author Area! ou’re holding in your hands a pajamas for both boys and girls in all preview of what we’ve planned to sizes from newborn to adult XL. “Put on STOP BY BOOTH # 1353 TO PICK UP GALLEYS OF OUR NEWEST TITLES! Y be four stimulating, informative, your pajamas, and I’ll read you a story” and fun days of professional is a night time ritual that most of us development in Austin next spring. The take for granted. Children in transition 60+ members of the Program and Local seldom have heard these comforting Arrangements Committees invite you to words, but the pajamas you provide will Sync Up! on April 14-17, 2015. Just as show them that someone does care. So, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, there wouldn’t be an association without remember to pack your pj’s for TLA! APRIL 15 APRIL 16 our members, you are the essential for only $1.75 (the ticket price after BONNIE CHRISTENSEN ingredient for our annual conference! One parenthetical comment about Signing: 9:30–10:30 a.m. conference planning: since I became 1/15/15). Reduce your hotel cost by JACQUELINE KELLY Program: I Met Them at the Library: Picture Book Biography Magic, 2:00–3:50 p.m. During the four days of solid conference President I’ve been frequently asked, sharing your room with other librarians. Signing: 10:30–11:30 a.m. programming, you’ll find preconferences, “why doesn’t TLA ever meet in El Don’t know any potential roommates? 350+ sessions, daily health events, meals Paso?” Actually, the TLA annual The room and ride sharing feature on the featuring authors, hands-on labs, poster conference was last held in El conference page of the TLA website will sessions, and an exhibit hall brimming Paso in 1973, but it simply doesn’t help you out. Austin’s food trucks can with all the top library vendors. Add in have enough convention space or provide inexpensive meals – and be sure time to sync up with your colleagues and appropriately-located hotel rooms to attend the Exhibits Opening Party friends from across Texas, and you can to hold a convention of over 7000 and the President’s Party for free food! create a personal conference schedule attendees. So if you’ve wondered why The Austin Convention Center has free tailored to your professional needs and TLA rotates among just a few Texas wifi, so using your devices will be easy. preferences. JENNIFER MATHIEU cities, that’s why. Aren’t you proud to Vendor swag and books at reduced prices EUGENE YELCHIN EMMY LAYBOURNE Signing: 10:30–11:30 a.m. Signing: Signing: 10:00–11:00 a.m. MAC BARNETT 1:00–2:00 p.m. Program: Hear Us Roar! Examining (sometimes free) are perfect souvenirs for Program: Connecting Young Readers to Program: Tayshas Reading List Panel To make the 2015 conference even be part of such a robust conference? Signing: 11:00–Noon the Strong Female Role Model in YA Lit 9:00–9:50 a.m. yourself and those back home. Creative World Cultures with Books 9:00–9:50 a.m. more your own, we’ve added a special 10:15–11:50 a.m. space, the Sync Up Station, a commons Over the past year, I’ve learned that a planning can make the conference area that can be anything you want reality of a professional conference is affordable and even more fun. it to be. Connect with a librarian at that it’s an expensive undertaking, and I There isn’t space in a one-page column to the Opening Luncheon and want to realize that the reality of many libraries highlight all the marvelous details of our continue your conversation? Come to and schools is that funding is scarce. Is 2015 conference. I haven’t told you about the Sync Up Station! Have questions for it possible to “do” TLA “on the cheap?” the return – by popular demand – of a session speaker but no time left to ask Here are some money-saving tips from the Book Cart Drill Team Competition, them? Invite the presenter to the Sync veteran attendees. Driving to Austin? our Hands-On Service Project planned Up Station. Want to discuss ideas for Take three or four friends with you, and for an Austin school library, our first genre-fying your collection? Post your split the cost of gas. Flying in? Take the ever “TRI-logy,” with running, cycling, MARY E. PEARSON MARIE RUTKOSKI LEE WARDLAW DAN YACCARINO Signing: 10:30–11:30 a.m. Signing: 10:30–11:30 a.m. topic and time to meet on the Sync Route 100 Airport Flyer bus straight and swimming events, the Placement Signing: 2:00–3:00 p.m. Signing: 2:30–3:30 p.m. Program: Hear Us Roar! Examining Program: Hear Us Roar! Examining Up Station’s calendar. When you pick from the airport to downtown Austin Center, or even described any of the Program: Annual Poetry Roundup Program: Dan vs. Dan: Winning Author Visits the Strong Female Role Model in YA Lit the Strong Female Role Model in YA Lit 10:15–11:50 a.m. 1:00–1:50 p.m. 9:00–9:50 a.m. 9:00–9:50 a.m. up your badge at conference, you’ll see more than 350